Democrat-ic Convention

[themadscientist]

Who? Obama? I must find video of this.

[stebo0728]

"'Detroit' (and Flint and Pontiac and Saginaw)," continued Moore, "are not defined by the global corporations who suck our towns dry and then split town to make more money elsewhere (except, of course, they continued to design and built crap cars, so eventually they didn't make the money at all). These cities in Michigan are about the people who live here, and in the process of 'saving Detroit,' Mr. Obama had to fire thousands of these people, and reduce the benefits and pensions of those who were left."

Source: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-shepp ... z25nl0eOyM

Wow.....Michael Moore said it, it MUST be true right?

[carloslebaron]

The video of the "embarrassing moment at DNC" was removed from YouTube. I found it in another site.

http://themassesareangry.blogspot.com/2 ... t-dnc.html

I think that the vote of the delegates deserved to be respected, not because I'm against God and Israel, but because such is what the delegates voted for, the no inclusion of the word God and the denial of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Of course, these two matters included in the amendments are supported by many democrats, perhaps the majority, still, their delegates have a complete different opinion. With the passing of the amendments the outcome of the votes became an embarrassing moment...otherwise, with the rejection of it...it should become a scandal that surely should hurt president Obama so bad as to quit the race...

[themadscientist]

I'm tired of this voice vote s***. Write your vote down. No, don't push a damned button on a computer that can be manipulated, WRITE IT DOWN, on a piece of paper, perhaps a cocktail napkin you pocketed last night at the Pussycat Lounge where you were explaining to that wayward young girl about how your policies can serve her while she was a**-up in your lap. Put the papers in a box and then count them in front of everyone. Whatever the majority wants is what you do. Don't like it, just drop the pretense that the organization values the opinions of its members and proceed in an openly dictatorial fashion and see how long that lasts. Even dumb people will figure it out if you just come out and say it. "F-U Delegates."

[IBCoupe]

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-ic. Democratic. English isn't that hard.

[themadscientist]

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-ic. Democratic. English isn't that hard.

This off-topic waste of space brought to you by IB.

[IBCoupe]

-ic. Democratic. English isn't that hard.

This off-topic waste of space brought to you by IB.

Thank you, Mike, for being the arbiter of all that is on-topic. From now on, I'll be sure to submit my comments for your approval.

I was tempted to discuss Stebo's earlier summary of the difference between the Democratic Party's position on government and the Republican Party's position on government, but I felt that correcting the title of the thread was an adequate proxy. The consistent inability to properly use a proper noun is a dead giveaway that nothing important is going to be said about that proper noun.

[themadscientist]

Hey, you know I'm a grammar Nazi from time to time. I am ready to support your advocacy for Noun rights, but you know that was a lazy wild punch. Get in there and start mixing it up with him. I think your battles with him are more enjoyable than ours; don't cheese out.

[IBCoupe]

It's not a grammar Nazi thing.

[carloslebaron]

It's not a grammar Nazi thing.

Naz -ic

[IBCoupe]

Ha! I like you.

[stebo0728]

I was tempted to discuss Stebo's earlier summary of the difference between the Democratic Party's position on government and the Republican Party's position on government, but I felt that correcting the title of the thread was an adequate proxy. The consistent inability to properly use a proper noun is a dead giveaway that nothing important is going to be said about that proper noun.

Is that what they're teaching in law school these days?

[IBCoupe]

No. They're teaching me Securities Regulation, Asset Purchase Agreement Drafting, and International Business Transactions this semester, as well as how to conduct my research project on the similarities and differences between legal ethics in the United States and China. But thanks for asking.

[stebo0728]

People refer to the party the way I did a bit more regularly than you might think. Are they all too stupid to bother with?

[IBCoupe]

Yes. Just because Republicans have been campaigning for this name-change for decades doesn't mean the name has actually changed. It's a proper noun.

[stebo0728]

We'll we could get into how a party who's called having delegates votes tied to the popular vote, essentially voiding the electoral college, seems to have a very democracy feel to it.

But then, what semantically is the difference between Democrat and democratic, other than proper noun status? Its a part of democrats, of which a single unit is called a democrat. Big whoop, you must be a member if your feathers got ruffled over that.

That's ok, your proxies are cute.

[IBCoupe]

No, it's because "Democrat" is a) more harsh-sounding (i.e., why Republicans choose to misuse it), and b) not the right word (i.e., why using it is wrong). There's no need to debate whether the party lives up to its name - that's its name, regardless of how it behaves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of ... atic_Party

Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_P ... 8phrase%29

[stebo0728]

Fixed it for ya pookie.

[IBCoupe]

No hyphen necessary, pumpkin.

[themadscientist]

Hey! I'm Pumpkin, remember? It's not special if you call everybody that.

Great going on the veterans' tribute guys.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09 ... e-to-vets/

Democrats apologized Wednesday for using a fleet of Russian warships as the backdrop for a Democratic National Convention tribute to U.S. military veterans, blaming a vendor for the mistake.

The event occurred on the final night of last week’s convention when retired Adm. John Nathman paid tribute to veterans, in front of a gigantic screen that showed four ships from the Russian Federation Navy.

Dumbasses. It's an easy mistake when you don't really care.

[IBCoupe]

Also: when you outsource.